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by joeyh 15y ago
Did not feel it in south-west VA.
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by joeyh 15y ago
I used to think that was pretty cool, until I realized it was probably developed well after Haskell. :) It can be of help if you're passing a lot of input to system() etc; it's not really general enough to help with web programming. I gave
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by joeyh 15y ago
Dozens of science fiction stories have been written about that, though most involve interstellar travel.
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by joeyh 15y ago
I never got into using mh, but have experienced a similar inversion when I switched to mpd, where what was a monolithic interface for playing music was replaced with a broad set of tools that center around the command line. It's exhilaratin
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by joeyh 15y ago
Configure your shell to report nonzero exit statuses. joey@gnu:~>true joey@gnu:~>false zsh: exit 1 In zsh this is done by "setopt print_exit_value". It's a pity shells don't do it by default.
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by joeyh 15y ago
Don't call it -i and -x, call it -i and --no-i or better, -i, --include and --no-include. Some getopts can provide this automatically. Last flag wins is a common choice because it allows some script to contain yourcommand --include $@ and
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by joeyh 15y ago
The cynic in me suspects that he has annoyed someone in power with his many other political activities (Demand Progress etc). When I first had contact with Aaron he was just this guy who wrote rss2email, it's been very inspiring to see him
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by joeyh 15y ago
How amusing that the date at the top is 1999-10-11, itself ambiguous. I like the "scientific time"/"political time" wording, snarf. By the way, I've noticed that while 200x was used most places for a while, it's becoming increasingly common
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by joeyh 15y ago
I was swimming in a river and picked up a rock. I like it's shape. I must own its copyright! insanity
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by joeyh 15y ago
You don't need bash features to do this either. I wrote shoop ( http://shoop.sourceforge.net/ ) a decade ago. < http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/ten_years_of_free_softwa... ;
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by joeyh 15y ago
"Don't check boxes for words you know you've seen before, but whose meaning you aren't exactly sure of." This is a bewildering instruction to me, since I've learned most of my vocabulary through reading, and rarely look up the definition of
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by joeyh 15y ago
In multiple languages (perl, haskell), I find myself writing a function that runs a system command and returns False (or sometimes, throws an exception) if it failed nonzero. Also, in haskell I use these frequently to have monadic versions
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by joeyh 15y ago
One thing about those old windows 95 floppies is that they have surprisingly better quality than other floppies. I had to use some floppies in 2001, and had massive failure rates with newly bought ones, and near-zero with rewritten Windows
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by joeyh 15y ago
There does not seem to be any impediment to anyone of any nationality, including space tourists, visiting any part of the ISS, so color me doubtful on that theory. People do seem to avoid the cramped Russian side mostly, and who knows what
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by joeyh 15y ago
Doable now with OStatus, is it not?
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by joeyh 15y ago
Be glad if you've not worked on a project where problem reports can take the form of a blurry, badly contrasted cell phone camera snapshot of the kernel oops that's partially scrolled off the user's screen. :)
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by joeyh 15y ago
Here´s my guess. This political tweet was one of many thought up by speechwriters, entered in a word document. It was passed around a few times to make sure it hit the right talking points, perhaps read to Boehner over the phone, and eventu
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by joeyh 15y ago
tl;dr -- mojibake
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by joeyh 15y ago
Similarly, Goodreads is a targeted social network for readers. As well as letting me keep up with what friends are reading, it provides features like keeping track of books, reviews, etc. I have not seen the kind of development of community
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Step-wise evaluation of simple Haskell code to hpaste(chrisdone.com)
3 points by joeyh 15y ago|0 comments
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by joeyh 15y ago
Is the checkpointing mechanism he implies actually present in bitcoin? Not clear to me if it's a rhetorical device or if the bitcoin developers are actually updating a last-good-checksum variable in the source from time to time.
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by joeyh 15y ago
How does a clock that is designed to run for thousands of years with no set stop date predict the end of the world?
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Bitcoin Theft – The Top Ten Threats(genesysguru.com)
2 points by joeyh 15y ago|0 comments
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by joeyh 15y ago
Technically, username+randomstring@* should be normalized to username@* ; plus in email address is part of the standard.
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by joeyh 15y ago
It's amusing people think it was a photoshop filter. Take a look at the diamonds in the tie. It would take an awesome algo to figure out that this surface is plane covered by diamond-ish things, and straighten it out, rotate it slightly, an
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by joeyh 15y ago
http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=screen+tmux&#... tmux still has a long hill to climb. FWIW, my .screenrc is 4 lines. My .tmuxrc is 26 lines, and all it tries to do is get a behavior comprable to screen. Ie, using the same c
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ClearCoin CSRFs (bitcoin fun day continues)(forum.bitcoin.org)
3 points by joeyh 15y ago|1 comments
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by joeyh 15y ago
If they were Satoshi, they could be sitting on enough early-adopter bitcoins that 500k is relatively not insane.
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by joeyh 15y ago
Tim Wu argues persuasively in The Master Switch and elsewhere that these things come in cycles, and that we're well on our way out of the cycle that led to an open internet, and into a cycle of consolidation and control (see: Facebook, lock
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by joeyh 15y ago
IMHO the shadiest side of the bitcoin daemon is that it discovers peers by connecting to an irc channel. Just like a typical virus botnet handles command and control. Connecting these two uses of IRC is pretty obvious, and then you get a vi

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